Drake sold about 460K, Did he save music?

Short answer, No. Better question, did music need to be saved? Lets be hooooooooooooooooooooonest, the expectations for Drakes debut album "Thank me Later" were a little to high for his given situation. Many predicted 500K or better, Lil Wayne was recorded saying he thought Drake "might do 2 million" (no wonder hes in jail, being that stupid should be a crime! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PS. Don't kill me young money, and keep your head up lil tunechi). But yeah i mean he almost reached that 500K point, which when you REALLY think about it, it would have been amazing for him to reach. Jay-z didn't do 500K in his first week with the Blueprint 3, none of the other new guys even came close to 400K (cudi, Asher roth, B.o.B., and DEFINITELY not Wale, he sold like 10 albums, all in DC), and the only one to really go above and beyond that recently was Eminem when he did 600K mainly because of Carter 3 syndrome which occurs when you don't put out an album for years.

I want to note that the Carter 3 selling a million in the first week was great, but it was also kind of fluke because he didn't put out a CD in years and just did mixtapes and hopped on every feature available to get his status up, i'm sick and tired of people hyping him up so much for that, Kanye or Jay-z would have done the same thing under those stipulations. Lets not forget he tried to pull a Kanye with "Rebirth" and FAILED HORRIBLY!!!!!!!!!!!!! he didn't go #1, he didn't sell shit, and the CD was actually really bad, i'm gonna need all these lil wayne heads to remember that when they talk about 808s, which was a success in every sense of the word, went #1 and sold 400K + first week, had multiple top 10 hits, generated enough for multiple singles and videos, and was critically acclaimed by many. lol i'm sorry i had to go on that tangent, but i really needed to say that about Lil Wayne, but back to Drake.

Oh Drizzle AKA Drizzy AKA Jimmy from Degrassi AKA "Ever, Greatest"AKA Young Angel AKA Mr. Aubrey Graham (has to be the gayest name for a rapper ever, unless J Cole is short for Jennifer Coletta). You should be happy, selling that much is great, you beat all those other new guys you're compared to, you really beat out everybody who isn't at the very top of music right now, go play hockey in Toronto or something. Its great to have high hopes, but if you think of this as a disappointment you must not be too realistic mister. The whole talk of Drake saving music, or hip hop music rather, just doesn't make much sense. I personally don't really think it needed saving, its been widely accepted over the past couple years that artists don't sell that many records anymore, they make a lot more money on tours and using their talents in other fields with the whole being an entrepreneur thing. Drake is still going to be rich just like the big rappers before him, and people are going to listen to his album and judge it accordingly (i thought it was pretty good, probably a 7 out of 10). I almost feel like nowadays people only really buy albums to support the artist, not to actually listen to the music, well young people anyways. So for them to get the sales they used to get, they're going to have to either offer the listeners something they can't download, or make it so that the people want to support the artist SOOOO much, that they'll actually want to or even need to buy the album, or somehow lower prices and make that very apparent to the people. Drake did his due diligence with this one though, its his first CD so honestly he kind of knocked this one out the park sales wise. To put it in perspective, Justin Bieber didn't even put up those numbers first week (neither did Rihanna or lady gaga for that matter).

All in all, whether you hate him or love him, Drake came through strongly with his sales performance, and although it may not have lived up to so some super high expectations, it should be looked at as a success for music and hip hop music. It didn't save music, but it probably saved Baby and Lil Wayne cause the rest of Young money/Cash money is kinda slackin. (Nicki thats your cue for the lesbian sex tape)

PS. Drake sounds like a STRAIGHT UP BITCH when he talks about the Rihanna situation in interviews, "she made me feel small, she made me feel nervous", Baby imma need you cut off his balls real quick, i'm sure it ain't the first time you've done it